(A/N) Well fellow readers I'm back!
Beep. Beep. Beep.
"Augh it can't be morning all ready can it?" Hiccup asked no one in particular as he sat up. Fishlegs still remained sound asleep, causing Hiccup to chuckle. "Hey brother! I think it's time for school!" Hiccup shouted to his fellow fostered teen. Fishlegs turned over, but did nothing more.
With a sigh and yawn, Hiccup stretched, pulled on his prosthetic, and walked to his desk so he could turn off the obnoxious alarm clock. You see their was yet another thing that differed Hiccup and Fishlegs in the mornings.
Growing up Hiccup had always had to get up considerably early so he could get things done around the house. After school he couldn't sleep, but instead had to go to work. Unlike Fishlegs who was always afraid to stay in the house because his father, Hiccup had to take care of the house on his own from a young age with his father at war.
Hiccup had to be a light sleeper, but Fishlegs had learned to sleep over yelling his hole life. "Fishlegs common!" Hiccup shouted. When that didn't work, Hiccup smirked with an idea. Hiccup used his feet to stand on the bottom bunk, but used his hands to pull himself to the top bunk. Hiccup freed one of his hands from the top bar of the bunk bed to shake Fishlegs roughly.
Fishlegs sat strait up to quickly to be considered normal, and Hiccup lost his grip on the top bar. "Woah! Toothless!" Hiccup shouted out despite his dragon being out of ear shot. With a thud Hiccup hit the ground below, hard.
"Oh..." Hiccup groaned wile holding his head, before hearing two sets of feet running down the hall to their room. "Hiccup are you okay?!" A woman's voice filled the room. At the same time a beefy pair of hands grabbed his shoulders, making Hiccup flinch.
"I-I'm okay. Thanks Magnus. Thanks Jacob." Hiccup said to the man and woman better known as his foster parents. They'd been taking care of him for five months now unlike Fishlegs and the twins who had been here over a year. It almost seemed like every time Hiccup tried to fit in with the other three kids being fostered such as this morning, he just got hurt. Literally.
Magnus kneeled near Hiccup, making sure he had no injuries. Unlike younger adults who would shrug it off, Magnus and Jacob were in their fifties and were worry warts about their 'kids'. "I'm okay. Really." Hiccup insisted, pushing Magnus's hand away from him.
Magnus frowned, but Jacob let go of Hiccup as well. "If the boy wants space, we give him space." He said, causing Hiccup to smile. Magnus and Jacob hesitantly left the room, letting Hiccup and Fishlegs get dressed. "Hey Hiccup have you seen my tunic?" Fishlegs asked wile changing into his day pants.
"No idea Fishlegs. Check the drawers in my dresser, maybe it got mixed in with my shirts." Fishlegs nodded and checked in the drawers, eventually finding his tunic. Hiccup changed into his red tunic and leather armor that he liked to wear along with a pare of blue jeans. Fishlegs dressed in his usual orange sweater and green leggings.
Once done getting dressed Hiccup packed his green backpack and red zip up binder for school at the same time Fishlegs packed up his giant blue backpack and put his notes in his numerous pockets. Both boys exited their room, meeting up with twins halfway down the wooden hallways which had the boys room and the twins room, one bathroom, and one guest room. The master bedroom where Magnus and Jacob slept was on the other end of the house past the living room which was to the right of the kitchen. You had to walk past the rest area with a fire pit in the middle and small TV with games attached to it before you entered the dining room/kitchen.
"Hey Ruffnut. Tuff." Hiccup said, stopping beside his adoptive siblings. Tuffnut backed away from Hiccup, like I said before not really liking any man other than himself. Ruffnut rolled her eyes at her brother, before smiling at Hiccup.
"Hey H. Hey Fish. Ready for school?" Ruffnut asked, walking beside Hiccup as they entered the rest area, Fishlegs and Tuffnut close behind. Hiccup looked down awkwardly, then shrugged. "Eh, at least it's almost Friday right?" Ruffnut nodded enthusiastically, punching Hiccup's shoulder lightly. "I agree one hundred percent my brother." Hiccup smiled, finally she was starting to accept him unlike Tuffnut.
The four kids in this house acted by a sort of code. Hiccup was the quiet one, and would only get upset if one, someone touched his papers and work, two they said something that triggered bad memories, or three someone did something he thought was a danger to his dragon. Hiccup was also leader like, and was seen like an older brother to the others being the oldest and being the most understanding of everyone.
Ruffnut and Tuffnut were the twins, therefor they always stayed by each others sides. They were the youngest of the group, and therefor were treated like so despite being only a few months behind. Tuffnut was protective of his sister and was territorial about certain things. Ruffnut on the other hand was even more chaotic than her brother, and therefor created so much trouble that none of the other three ever had time to fall into a depression or sadness about their past.
Fishlegs was like the middle child, born late January so two months younger than Hiccup who was born in mid February, yet four months older than the twins her were born in early October. Magnus and Jacob insisted on celebrating birthdays. Ruffnut and Tuffnut just had their sixteenth birthday being twins, and it was now nearing Fishlegs' and Hiccup's seventeenth, being the middle of November. Fishlegs was like the peacekeeper, never getting to mad at anyone and only really joining the other kids when needed or offered unlike Hiccup who was the one who started a lot of adventures, completing their group.
As I said before, Tuffnut was territorial, and thanks to their past, very protective of his sister. He didn't like the idea having other siblings, so the second she called Hiccup her brother he snapped. Within a few seconds, Tuffnut was standing between Hiccup and Ruffnut, holding out his arms and glaring at the young man.
"He's not your brother Ruff. I am remember? We're twins." Tuffnut said sternly. Ruffnut who almost never listened to her protective brother shoved him out of her way. "I was just trying to make him feel like he was a part of you, me, and Fishy here you Muttonhead. Why are you so fucking stubborn!" Ruffnut said, having a tendency to get mad and violent quickly because she had to protect herself the two times they went to jail.
"Hey guys that's enough. Tuffnut I wasn't trying to take your sister from you, I swear it." Hiccup tried to reason, something he was normally good at. Tuffnut wasn't having it. "Who are you to boss me around?!" He asked and Hiccup scowled.
"Look here Tuff, I don't want to be in this household anymore than you do, got it? I don't want to have to adapt to a different family until I'm 18. I don't want to have to have nightmares almost every night of my father leaving me. If it was up to me, I'd be back home fending for myself right now, so don't you go thinking i'm trying to steal any siblings here. I could be just fine on my own using the money I get from dragon racing right now." Hiccup glared at Tuffnut. Like I said, the second thing. You trigger his memories and Hiccup gets angry.
Fishlegs suddenly stepped in, acting as a shield to make sure the two boys didn't go at each others throats. "Hey look guys, we've only got ten minutes till school. Why don't we just calm down, and eat breakfast." Hiccup and Tuffnut didn't budge.
Suddenly Ruffnut didn't like the tension and became nervous. This caused her to lash out at her brother who lashed out at Fishlegs for getting to close who lashed out at Hiccup who got angry at Tuffnut for being so moronic as he put it.
Suddenly Magnus and Jacob entered the room, Jacob grabbing Tuffnut so he would stop fighting his sister. It was almost like the boy thought no one could hurt his sister, except him. Tuffnut probably just didn't trust anyone to not go to far.
"Tuffnut stop this! We're not hurting you." Jacob tried to reason as Tuffnut thrashed against him, shouting insults I'd prefer not to write at this very moment. Hiccup took a seat on the couch, head in his hands. He wondered where Toothless was, and felt upset that his dragon was out of ear shot. This was way to much stress on him.
Fishlegs sat beside Hiccup, being a very forgiving person of everyone except his father. He lay a large hand on his 'brothers' shoulder, waiting for Hiccup to say something. Magnus tried to calm Ruffnut down who had a black eye and was stuck in a flashback.
Eventually everyone calmed down, and they were five minutes late for driving to the school. "Alright everyone, lets just calm down and get to school alright? You can see you friends and forget about your enemies for a little wile. Deal?" Magnus asked, standing in the middle of the rest area.
Hesitantly all the other kids agreed, Hiccup not saying anything or nodding. He simply grabbed his bag, walking outside to the tan colored van which had three back seats, two middle seats, and two front seats. Hiccup sat in the very back, Fishlegs sitting in the cramped middle next to him. Ruffnut sat behind Magnus in the middle who drove, Tuffnut behind Jacob who had to ignore the boy getting jittery and accidently kicking his seat.
Hiccup looked out at the dragon stalls where the dragons were eating their breakfast from the feeding stations. A small smile graced his lips as Hiccup remembered his one best friend. Touching the Thunderdrum pin which connected to his leather armor, Hiccup looked outside the window wile remembering what his dad had said in the note that came with it.
"I know you didn't want this, but I said I'd give it to you when your ready. Your capable of so much son, and I know you won't let this loss get you down." Hiccup tried to keep his father from being a liar, getting through life as it was. It was still hard though, and now Hiccup had a day of school to go to. "You ready?" He asked Fishlegs who shrugged. "Ready as i'll ever be." School was an everyday challenge for the temperamental, hurt, and lost foster kids, but they knew they'd get through. They always did.
(A/N) Hey guys! There's chapter 2 for you (the first one was an introduction). I really needed to introduce the four foster kids and their parents more so wrote this. Basically the first chapter was the summary, second was introducing the Hiccup/Toothless bond, third was introducing the kids and foster parents, and Chapter four is introducing the beginning of Hiccstrid so be ready!
Until next time fellow dragon riders, I really love the reviews and if you have ideas to add into chapters like if you know something about foster care or someone in it I'd love to add your scenes in!
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